BIB_ID
366476
Accession number
MA 455.17
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1737 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 17."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 17."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 730); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Mentioning "a certain Lady [he is] very much in Love with" named "Lady Howth"; asking him to attend a hearing about a dispute between Lady Riverston and a man named Nugent; also requesting that he "bring [his] Friends of the Peerage to accompany" him; mentioning Queen Caroline's death; reporting that he has "grown an entire Ghost of a Ghost of what [he] was"; asking him to send him "a Silver Sixpence"; writing, "if you see my friend [Alexander] Pope say I will answer his last letter soon."
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